|
| June 29, 2002 | Saturday | Rabi-us-Sani 17, 1423 |
|
Corporations must be honest: Bush: Scandals rattle White House
WASHINGTON, June 28: US President George W. Bush, angered at relentless scandals in US boardrooms, said on Friday that corporate America has a responsibility to be above board instead of trying... 
|
|
Farooq blasts Delhi over threat to impose direct rule
SRINAGAR, June 28: Occupied Kashmir’s “chief minister” Farooq Abdullah said on Friday that New Delhi did not have the right to impose direct rule over the held state, in a rebuke...
|
|
||
|
US expels two Iranian UN men
LOS ANGELES, June 28: Two men who work in New York for Iran’s mission to the United Nations are being expelled from the United States, ABC News said on Friday....
|
|
Hamas leader flouts Arafat’s arrest order
GAZA CITY, June 28: The spiritual guide of the Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, flouted his house arrest order and took part in an anti-US march here on Friday....
|
|
|
||
|
Fighting hampering Afghan aid work: HRW
NEW YORK, June 28: Factional rivalry in northern Afghanistan is leading to a rise in attacks on humanitarian aid workers and Afghan civilians, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday....
|
|
89 killed as rains flood Maharashtra
MUMBAI, June 28: At least 89 people have died in heavy monsoon rains that have flooded India’s western state of Maharashtra and neighbouring Gujarat, officials said on Friday....
|
|
|
||
Oxfam’s post match verdict on G8 leaders
 CALGARY, June 28: With one eye on the World Cup and one on the plight of developing Africa, aid agency Oxfam on Thursday issued a damning “post-match” analysis of the Group...
|
|
Argument over baby’s picture
TEL AVIV, June 28: Israeli and Palestinian officials were up in arms on Friday over the picture of a Palestinian baby “suicide bomber” that the Israeli army said it found in...
|
|
|
||
|
Newsman stumbles upon security plans
CALGARY, June 28: A British journalist stumbled upon a secret document on Thursday detailing security plans for the world’s most powerful leaders at their summit in the Canadian Rockies, but police...
|
|
Lankan town under curfew
COLOMBO, June 28: Following acute unrest in the Batticaloa region, the Lankan government on Friday imposed a 24-hour curfew in the northeastern areas of Batticaloa and Ampara....
|
|
|
||
|
Aid agencies scorn G8 for inaction : ‘Rescue plan’ for Africa
CALGARY: Aid agencies furiously criticized the world’s richest countries, describing the G8’s much-vaunted rescue plan for Africa as a squandered opportunity and “recycled peanuts.”...
|
|
Water a major irritant in African deserts
AKLALET (Eritrea): In an area where little seems to have changed since Biblical times, engineers armed with laptops are bringing water to tens of thousands of refugees....
|
|
|
||
|
‘Silk Road’ in Washington
WASHINGTON: On a blistering hot day in the US capital this week, the Smithsonian Institution’s Richard Kurin sought refuge in the cool shade of a nomadic felt tent. Usually, the yurt...
|
|
Discomfort in Japan over views on nukes
TOKYO: Japan’s Constitution binds it to peace, but the discomfort level of activists and neighbouring countries is rising amid recent remarks by top politicians that indicate the nation should have the...
|
|
|
||
|
Chirac on solo flight at Seville summit
PARIS: It was an incident evidently fraught with significance, but which few observers chanced to pick up on at last week’s summit of European heads of state at Seville: France’s newly-...
|
|
Sleep with light on to stave off blindness
LONDON: Sleeping with the light on might help stave off eye problems and the risk of blindness for hundreds of thousands of people suffering from diabetes, researchers say....
|
|
|
||
